The Chimpanzee Sanctuary & Wildlife Conservation Trust (CSWCT)
CSWCT aims to protect wild chimpanzee populations and their habitat and has initiated numerous projects to achieve these aims. Based in Uganda, CSWCT is involved in habitat protection activities, snare removal programmes, community conservation projects, ecotourism, and threat mitigation strategies. CSWCT works with local authorites and communities, assists education, economic development, health
and education.
CSWCT also care for orphaned chimpanzees. Every year in Africa, approximately
5,000 chimpanzees are killed by poachers for the bushmeat trade. As a by-product of this illegal practice, dozens of infant chimpanzees are taken alive from the forest, bound for the pet trade throughout Africa and the rest of the world.
Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary was established in October 1998 to care for these orphaned chimpanzees that have been rescued from poachers and/or traders. Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary and CSWCT aim to provide the best facilities and care to these orphaned chimpanzees, while also trying to ensure the protectionof populations that survive in the wild.
Wildlife 1
Wildlife 1 highlights the regions wildlife crisis and seeks to effectively address it by developing an online monitoring and reporting network. The global trade in wildlife is massive, it is now one of the biggest threats facing wildlife, worth over US$10 Billion per year and second only to the trade in drugs and arms. Wildlife trade, driven by burgeoning human economies, and the insatiable demand of consumer tastes, has driven countless species to the verge of extinction, and has led to the collapse of animal food chains across the region. Wildlife 1 clearly illustrates how rapidly wild species are becoming critically endangered, and why the issue must be urgently and effectively addressed before it is too late.
Wildlife 1 will highlight the acts of abuse perpetrated against animals conveyed through powerful photography and factual account, but also of the cultural and institutionalised traditions that drive a large part of the market coupled with the crippling poverty and corruption that seeks to exploit the lucrative and fragile resource of exotic and endangered species.
The project offers hope for our plundered ecosystems in the form of education, awareness and public interaction. Education being the key to changing attitudes of present, and most importantly, future generations - of understanding that livelihoods can be earned other than through destruction of resources and that our anthropocentric vision can be broadened to appreciate and respect a diversity and richness beyond our own lives and needs.
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